The Wilmingtonian., 1887-01-29
Let the Sunshine In.

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genes as he was reposiug in his tub, and
asked him what he could do for him, Dto.
cones replied Stand out of my sunshine. I"
The conqueror of the world, Offering q cbo;o.
Oh gifts to man who had not even a roof to
cover his head, and yet who chose nothing
but the sunshine, which was his already
Considered from hygienic point of view
the story contains striking moral.
one OF the great mistakes of the winter
seasons" says DR.. Hamilton oseood .gs
nuinerence to sunshine when it is possible
10 i've and sleep in sunny rooms. Such in.
aiherenoe is attended with serious danger.
IN ine choice Of apartments, anything and
everything within reason ought to be saori-
need to the necessity of having the living
ana sleeping-rooms where they can every
uaytoe purified by the sun. Instead of hay-
ing guest-chamber and parlor in the sun.
Snlne' they should be given the shady side
OF the house; for, in comparison to the fam.
liy.rooms, they are but little used.
In the health of women, children, and
'nVailas who, during the cold mouths. spend
SO much time indoors, it makes a vast diff.
ference as to whether the rooms in which
they live are in sunshine and shadow. Look
az the faces Of miners, of clerks who ara i'm.
INJURED in dark Offices of women and child.
rem who. hardly see the sun in tie wintsr
How faded, colorless. and uslieaishy they
are IN comparison with the faces of those
who Will have sunshine indoors and ont y
A New York merchant noticed, in the
progress OF years, that each successive book
Keeper gradually lost his health, and finally
u'ed OF consumption, however vigorous and
ROBUST he was on entering his service. Al
length it occurred to him that the little rear
room where the books were kept opened in.
20 back yard, so surrounded by high walls.
That no sunshine came into 1t from one year,s
end to another. An upper room, well light.
ed, was Immediately prepared, and his cierks
mad uniform good health ever after.
A familiar case to general readers Ia de.
rived from medical works, where an eptlrs
English family became i'll and all remedies
seemed to fail of their usual results, when
accidently window-glass of the family room
was broken in cold weather. It was not re.
paired, and forthwith there was a marked
Improvement in the health Of the inmates.
The physician at once traced the connection
discontinued his medicines, and ordered the
window pane should not be replaced.
A French lady became i'll. The most emil
nent physicians of her time were called In.
but failed to restore her. At length Dupuey-
tren, the Napoleon of physic, was consulted.
Tie noticed that she lived in dim room. in
to which the sun never shone, the house
being situated in one of the narrow streots
of Paris. He at once ordered more airy and
cheerful apartments, and ''all her complaints
vanished"
The lungs of dog become differentiated
(consumptive) in few weeks If kept con.
fined in dark cellar. The most common
plant grows pale, spindley, and scraggling
II no sunlight falls upon it. The greatest
me dinal namas In Fronoo ~ A.. -
regarded sunshine and pure air as equal
agents in restoring and maintaining health,
From these facts, which cannot be dspp-
ted, the most common mind should conclude
that cellars and rooms on the north side of
building, or apartments into which the sun
ioes net Immediately shine, should never be
occupied as family rooms or chambers, or as
libraries or studies. Such apartments are
'aly tit for ''stowage," or purposes which
never require persons to remain in them over
few minutes at time. And every intelli.
gent and humane parent will arrange that
.he family room and the chambers shall be
'he most commodious, lightest and brightest
in his dwelling.
Above all, sunshine should be given to the
'ick. The progress of the illness and the
fleets of remedies will then bo a thousand.
old more favorable, Why do constructors
If hospitals use every Ingenuity to secure
he greatest possible amount Of sunshine?
3ecause experience has shown that the
ieatb-rate is less, the duration Of disease
horteT, and the patients far happier and
more cheerful in the wards which have sun
hine for the greatest number of hours dur
nG the day. We hang our bird-cages in the
'indow, out of doors, if possible, because.
eprived of the sun, the birds droop, perhap,
ie' And yet we forget that to human be-
nes the sun is just as necessary. Thera is
lore tonic lifegiving effect in sunshine than
D any drug known to mau,
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